The World is Not Enough

by Raymond Benson and Benson Raymond

Book Overview

Greed, revenge, world domination through the power of oil, high-tech terrorism... Only some of the ingredients of this latest 007 adventure which begins outside the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 042517350X
• ISBN13: 9780425173503
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Boulevard Books
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best

I read the novelization of "Tomorrow Never Dies" before reading this. The thing I noticed with Benson is that in his novelizations he writes in third-person omniscent, allowing the reader to not only visualize everything, but know what the characters are thinking, which can obviously not be done in the movies. I had some of the movie before reading the book. After I read the book, however, I saw the movie and it made a lot more sense.

Bond is back and Better Then Ever!

This is the Best book in the Bond collection. I found this book a real page turner. I loved the action scenes in the book because they were described so well. The best part of the book... for me was the begining when he raced the cigar girl through the Thames River in London. Raymond Benson Does a wonderful job of kepping the James Bond style after Fleming.I read this book foor Honors Geography at Redmond High School For Mrs. Nygaard who is a really cool teacher. -Ryan

Around the world 007 goes!

After oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed in a bombing at MI6 headquarters, his daughter, Elektra, inherits his fortune-billions of dollars worth of oil deposits in the Caspian Sea...and James Bond, 007, as a bodyguard. Her new wealth attracts international interest. But she has also attracted the attenions of her father's killer... His name is Renard. A bullet lodged in his brain has rendered him unable to feel physical pain, and he has but one reason left to live-revenage. There's only one man who can take the heart between a beautiful heiress, a malicious sociopath and his final diabolical plan. Buy this book! It is another great 007 book to read!

Let's all hope the movie is this terrific!

I am on record as trashing High Time to Kill (see reviews for that book) along with vowing to wait for the Benson novels in paperback (if not used papaerback). Well, I bought this paperback new and would have paid for a hard cover of this story's quality. Benson is terrific on this novelization. I'm sure there is a lot of extra info that will clarify parts of the movie when I see it. The rumored "airhead" personality of Christmas Jones does not come through in the book and I was afraid that the return to "sexpot" Bond girls would send the modernized Bond into a tailspin. One especially bright point is the meatier role for M. I think Benson likes writing her and it shows. For fans who haven't followed every plot point posted on the web, I'm sure there will be more than a few surprises. The plot-Bond is assigned to bodyguard Elektra King, the daughter of a recently-assassinated oil magnate. Elektra has already been the target of kidnappers led by the villainous Renard, a terrorist who has no pain center. (Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think a "painless" killer was written into the Tomorrow Never Dies plot, but was scrapped after the novelizatioon had already been written) Great gadgets, great plot, great girls,a surprise development with M, and an atomic bomb stolen from a foremer Soviet Republic make for an exciting and riveting thriller.

Very entertaining!

As with "Tomorrow Never Dies," Raymond Benson fleshes out the story and provides original background to the characters which normally one wouldn't see in the film. Here, motivations are explained (as they often are not in films!) and the entire thing becomes more believable. This was a real page-turner, and, while being a "novelization" and therefore shorter and more simplified than Benson's original Bond novels, it was a fun read.